The Union Territory of Chandigarh has not been designated as a world heritage city, however, its Capitol Complex was inscribed as a transnational UNESCO World Heritage property in 2016, the government ...

In many travelers’ minds, Mongolia conjures images of vast plains, nomadic gers, desert landscapes and one of the most famous warriors of all time, Genghis Khan. Though the famed first khagan of the ...

The International Union of Architects (UIA) has launched an ideas contest calling on young architects to rethink UNESCO World Heritage Sites within urban contexts (Deadline: 7 March) ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Odesa's grand opera house and the five-star Hotel Bristol, a landmark constructed ...

The UK's peatlands face an uncertain future amid the escalating impacts of climate change. Peatlands are critical ecosystems for carbon storage and biodiversity, containing more carbon than all the ...

Russian forces launched missile strikes on Odesa’s historic center on the evening of Jan. 31, injuring at least two people, ...

"Generations after us will be able to say that's where history was made," said Guilford County Commissioners Chair Melvin ...

A new report says the expansion of nickel mining in Indonesia is a threat to one of Earth's most biodiverse marine regions ...

South America dazzles in its cultural and natural diversity. This huge continent includes 12 sovereign states (Argentina, ...

"We saw for ourselves yet again that we shouldn’t have any illusions about the current situation in UNESCO or the policy course of its director general and her closest colleagues," the Russian foreign ...

According to the top Russian diplomat, the most deplorable thing about UNESCO's leadership is that "they have an absolutely biased position on the Ukrainian crisis, thus flagrantly violating the ...

The Auschwitz nazi death camp has been inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list for decades. UNESCO has been pivotal in ...